Description of problem:
Clamav-data package is required by clamv-lib and may be other packages from
clamav. This package is too large and it is not necessary to download it. It can
help for users, which have slow connection or are paying for each megabyte.
Additional info:
You can make requisities on clamav-data or clamav-update for clamav base
packages. After installing clamav-update, it is possible to try to update latest
database. It is not necessary to download a 7MB file clamav-data with often old
content, while I have newer version of these files on my hard disk.
If don't have enough time, I can try to fix this (I think, I am an experienced
rpm maker). :-)

After a long time, thank you for this package. It works well for me, but I have
some improvements.
Please add an Require: clamav-update to this new package. It is necessary to
have at least one of them, clamav-data or clamav-update, elsewhere clamav does
not work.
And another improvement is, that after updating to new clamav, run freshclam
from clamav-data-empty %postinst script. Everyone, who have clamav-data-empty
installed need to update it's database before update from clamav-0.91 to
clamav-0.92 (now in fedora testing repository). Clamav 0.92 needs different
database like downloaded by older clamav.
May be it is also time to remove "Example" string from default
/etc/freshclam.conf script. When using freshclam with DNS support, it is
automatically redirected to a random server from clamav pool. I think it's not
necessary to configure other options manually. If you wish, you can number of
update checks daily for example to 2per1day. If you leave the "Example" string
here, first update will in clamav-data-empty will not work (you can simply
ignore this error if you want, but it's better to update freshclam automatically).
A am sorry, that I am writing more thing into one but, just last thing, which
has relates to these. The cron.d/clamav-update script users this:
MAILTO=root,postmaster,webmaster,clamav
Why it is good to send reports to these addresses? At least two of them
(webmaster, clamav) are not redirected by default to an real user. I think it is
enough to send report to root or postmaster (not both of them). Everyone can
change this to it's own settings. I have problems with default settings on all
my machines and need to fix this on all of them.
If you need help to do these changes into your rpm, please tell me.

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> Please add an Require: clamav-update to this new package. It is
> necessary to have at least one of them, clamav-data or clamav-update
no; you can propagate the database through other channels too
(e.g. cfengine).
> run freshclam from clamav-data-empty %postinst
> ...
> May be it is also time to remove "Example" string from default
> /etc/freshclam.conf script
I will not do this, because:
* I really hate programs which connect to the outside (aka "phoning
home") without being configured to do this
* it will not work because network connections usually require
additional site-local configurations (HTTPProxyServer)
> The cron.d/clamav-update script users this:
> MAILTO=root,postmaster,webmaster,clamav Why it is good to send
> reports to these addresses?
Years ago, people complained that nobody would see the cronjob
messages because systems are not configured to deliver root mail to
a real user. So I made it as loud as possible.
Ok; it is trimmed down again to 'root' now...

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